maculata, Raja Shaw [G.] 1804:316 [General zoology or systematic natural history; ref. 4015] Vizagapatam, India. No types known. •Questionably valid as Narcine maculata (Shaw 1804) -- (Compagno 1999:487 [ref. 25589]). •Valid as Narcine maculata (Shaw 1804) -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:24 [ref. 19754], Monkolprasit 1990:391 [ref. 20064], Chen et al. 1997:11 [ref. 26476], Carvalho et al. 1999:1440 [ref. 24638], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:581 [ref. 25122], Carvalho 2001:571 [ref. 25603], Carvalho & Randall 2003:62 [ref. 26773], Sujatha 2002:157 [ref. 26899], Last el al. 2010:164 [ref. 32461], Weigmann 2016:74 [ref. 34211] see remarks, Carvalho & White 2016:158 [ref. 34504], Carvalho & Last 2016:159 [ref. 34996], Psomadakis et al. 2020:199 [ref. 37272]). Current status: Valid as Narcine maculata (Shaw 1804). Narcinidae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Sri Lanka and eastern India east to Philippines, north to southern China and Taiwan. Habitat: marine.